March 2027
March at a glance: 1 exhibition opening, 6 closing, and 17 more on view across the city.

Art Institute of Chicago
The first exhibition of Colombian artist Beatriz González's works on paper: more than 80 works from six decades, many shown publicly for the first time.

Chicago Architecture Center
Six decades of the CAC, from fighting to save historic buildings during urban renewal to shaping design education and advocacy across Chicago. In the Orientation Space.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Six artists reclaim forms of slowness that resist the contemporary demand to constantly perform, across painting, sculpture, video and live performance.

Art Institute of Chicago
Cokes's first outdoor presentation in Chicago fills the Bluhm Family Terrace with a two-part installation: a billboard viewable from Millennium Park and a freestanding sign, both set to music.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Paintings from collector M. Christine Schwartz's gift trace Chicago's fine arts from academic naturalism to impressionism across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Art Institute of Chicago
27 prints placing Japan's sōsaku-hanga (creative print) artists among the global postwar avant-garde, from the museum's Asian art and prints collections.

Field Museum
Fossil Pokémon such as Tyrantrum and Archeops are set side by side with the real fossils that inspired them, including SUE the T. rex. North American debut of the touring Japanese exhibition.
Chicago Architecture Center
Off-site at the 1927 First Presbyterian Church in Woodlawn (6400 S Kimbark Ave): three artists' installations across its grounds and sanctuary, with Arts at First.

Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Thirteen marbles, paintings and archives chart the career of Emma Stebbins, the first woman awarded a public sculpture commission by New York City for Central Park's Bethesda Fountain.

Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
The longest-running exhibition of Black art in the United States, presenting juried work by Black artists from across the country as part of the museum's Black Creativity programme.

The Renaissance SocietyFree
Antoni Miralda's five decades of food-based art, focused on the experiment-cum-restaurant he ran with Montse Guillén in the 1980s, and the table as a place where the personal meets the political.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
More than 70 works span the Chicago-born artist's career, from his New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club photographs to the Anxious Men and Broken Men series.

Museum of Contemporary PhotographyFree
Eight photographers and six writers document resilient communities across Africa, bridging postcolonial critique with contemporary hope through gender, spirituality, displacement and self-representation.

Art Institute of Chicago
The first US exhibition on Francisco de Zurbarán in 40 years: about 50 works of the Spanish Golden Age painter from 30 lenders worldwide.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Chicago painter's large-scale Sideline (After Ben Shahn) fills the two-storey entrance atrium: four languid women, limbs entwined, waiting for something that never comes.

Smart Museum of ArtFree
A thematic draw from the Smart's permanent collection exploring art and healing across six strands: health, grief, displacement, trauma, mindfulness and protection.

Smart Museum of ArtFree
A large-scale site-specific mural for the Smart's Threshold series, using the flat visual language of diagrams and educational charts to map power, labour, housing and inequality as one system.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Spanning three floors, this exhibition explores the far-reaching impact of art historian, critic and curator Lucy Lippard through themes found in her work.

Chicago History Museum
Garments and accessories worn by George and Martha Washington, John Adams and Abraham and Mary Lincoln, shown alongside the conservation work that keeps them intact.

Field Museum
More than 200 objects raised from ancient Egyptian ports underwater, centred on Isis, Aphrodite, Helen of Troy and queens Cleopatra and Arsinoe II.

Art Institute of Chicago
A yearlong photography and media show on seasonal change, with some works rotating in and out as the year turns and others on view throughout.

Art Institute of Chicago
A 21-panel painting over 100 feet wide carries viewers from the nocturnal solitude of the artist's Kashmiri childhood through the frenzy of the Western art world to a fragile, renewed dawn.

Art Institute of Chicago
More than 50 objects from the Arts of Africa collection show beliefs and values surrounding the body shared across the continent, and the distinct cultural forms those ideas take.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.